Spectral Theorem approach to the Characteristic Function of Quantum Observables

preprint2020arXivOpen access

Abstract

Using the spectral theorem we compute the Quantum Fourier Transform (or Vacuum Characteristic Function) ⟨Φ,eitHΦ⟩\langle Φ, e^{itH}Φ\rangle of an observable HH defined as a self-adjoint sum of the generators of a finite-dimensional Lie algebra, where ΦΦ is a unit vector in a Hilbert space H\mathcal{H}. We show how Stone's formula for computing the spectral resolution of a Hilbert space self-adjoint operator, can serve as an alternative to the traditional reliance on splitting (or disentanglement) formulas for the operator exponential.

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